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2013 Mid-autumn Festival

The joyous Mid-Autumn Festival was celebrated on the fifteenth day of the eighth moon. Whenever the festival sets in, people will look up at the full silver moon, eating mooncakes, drinking wine to celebrate their happy life or thinking of their relatives and friends far from home, and extending all of their best wishes to them.

-2013 Mid-autumn Festival

The Mid-Autumn Festival is also known by other names, such as:

Moon Festival, because of the celebration's association with the full moon on this night, as well as the traditions of moon worship and moon gazing.

Mooncake Festival, because of the popular tradition of eating mooncakes on this occasion.

Zhongqiu Festival

Lantern Festival, a term sometimes used in Singapore and Malaysia, which is not to be confused with the Lantern Festival in China that occurs on the 15th day of the first month of the Chinese calendar.

Reunion Festival, because in olden times, a woman in China would take the occasion to visit her parents before returning to celebrate with her husband and his parents.

Children's Festival, in Vietnam, because of the emphasis on the celebration of children.